The Most Fascinating Work Facebook Is Doing In Machine Learning

What are the most interesting things Facebook is doing in ML research? originally appeared on Quora – the knowledge sharing network where compelling questions are answered by people with unique insights. Answer by Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Director of Applied Machine Learning at Facebook, on Quora. The Applied ML team I am a part of is Facebook’s applied research arm. We work on core ML, on computer vision, on computational photography and on language technologies. We work very closely with Facebook AI Research (FAIR) who is pushing the state-of-the-art on these areas, and we are complementary in that we focus more heavily on applications. I would like to highlight a couple of recent pieces of research I find very exciting. This is by no means a complete list, and we’re not…